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Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 20:22 - Category: Unfiled ;
Mark, the Reuters photog who camped out last night, just came back from a scouting mission.
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Dancing with Katrina
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 10:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Buildings are imploding in downtown Gulfport.
14 people were trapped in one.
Firemen in Biloxi were trapped in a Firehouse and can’t get out.
Trees are falling like dominoes.
Casinos are underwater, some with roofs ripping off.
“This economy is crippled,” said someone in the office.
The wind is roaring, screaming, pulling, bashing.
The water is rising, but it’s not at us yet.
CNN is reporting 10 feet of water in downtown Gulfport.
Gulfport reporter video via Weather Channel, they are 1/2 mile inland, 27 feet above sea level, and the water is ten feet deep with the first floor completely flooded.
Times-Picayune breaking news blog
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 08:50 - Category: Unfiled ;
L.A. Posada protest and rally today
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 08:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Extradite Posada Carriles to Venezuela!
National Day of Action.
L.A. protest and rally
Today, August 29, 6 pm
Westwood Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd, LA
Ultra-right terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who has admitted blowing up an airliner filled with innocents, goes on trial today on immigration charges.
U.S. government should extradite the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela for trial, yet is refusing to do so, making a hypocritical mockery of their ‘war on terror.’
Cell phone tip
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 08:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
My cell phone reception at home was terrible. Many dropouts, all the time. Oddly, it had been great, now it wasn’t. I called Cingular. They said, turn it off then on, 2-3 times a day. This will make it refresh and then find the strongest signals.
So it did. No more dropouts. (Sue, who has the same model phone as me, never had the problem, because she often turns her cell phone off anyway - behavior I, being a seriously Type-A personality, found baffling.)
Is Blair ashamed to accept highest honour from US?
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 08:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
More than two years have elapsed since Tony Blair was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for being a “staunch and steadfast ally”†of the United States in the war on terror, but Downing Street yesterday said the Prime Minister still does not know when he will pick it up.
This exceptional 772-day delay is beginning to raise eyebrows in Washington, where suspicions are growing that Mr Blair wishes to avoid being photographed receiving America’s highest civilian honour from President Bush.
That Dubya, even his friends don’t want to be seen with him.
Police chief - Lockerbie evidence was faked
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 08:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
A former Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses “wrote the script” to incriminate Libya.
Bankruptcy bill + housing bubble = disaster
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 08:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Under the new bankruptcy regulations, homeowners will no longer necessarily be able to hand the keys to the bank and move on. Lenders will, in many cases, have the option of coming after them for virtually everything else they’ve got — income, money in bank accounts and other assets.
If you’ve done a refi or the bank forecloses and sells the house for less than you owe, they can now hound forever for the money.
Welcome to the indentured servant world of the Bush administration.
Update
Bob Morris @ Aug 29th 2005 08:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
‘Total structural failure’ reported in New Orleans. Katrina ripped away a large section of the Superdome’s roof.
A levee in New Orleans has been breached sending 3 to 8 feet of water into the 9th Ward area of the city.
Windows began bursting out of top floors of high rise buildings in downtown New Orleans shortly before dawn.
Category 4 Katrina aims for New Orleans, where the haves flee and the have-nots hunker down.
Jonathon Carol said the shattered glass on the city streets looked like ice.
A man in the east of the city said the water in his home was “rising pretty fast”.
“Tell someone to come get me please,” Chris Robinson said via mobile phone.
“I want to live.”
WDSU breaking news
Don’t Drink The Water In Jefferson Parish
Boats In Buildings In Gulfport
East Jefferson Hospital Also Flooding
Chris Robinson says the water is rising in his New Orleans-area home, but he’s “holding off on breaking through the roof” to escape. Robinson is keeping a hammer, ax and crowbar at the ready, though.
